In this e-book you can find the problems created (and then solved!) by the students taking part in the eTwinning project

Maths &... Fun

It is Christmas Eve and Santa has still to prepare 1500 presents fro good children all around the word. He needs the help of his elves.

Every elf can pack 50 presents in a day.

How many elves should help

Santa so that every good

child will have his present?

Roberta Colombo

Primary school of Sartirana

Santa Claus has to distribute the Christmas gifts set out. He distributed to 47 gifts in the first town. In the second town, he distributed 14 times the gift he gave in the first town. How many gifts did Santa Claus distribute in two towns?

SİBEL GÜNER-FATİH SULTAN MEHMET PRIMARY SCHOOL

For each of the 67 Christmas trees he bought for Christmas, Santa Claus used 8 light balls each. Santa Claus has 640 lighted balls in total and how many lighted balls are left in his hand?

Nazmiye BAYRAMBEĞ/Karacaoğlan Middle School OSMANİYE

Rumeysa KASA - SABRİ ÖZEL ORTAOKULU

Santa Claus came to Şemdinli to give his gifts. He preferred to give his gifts from the lowest door to the highest door number. Door numbers:

Muhammed AYSAL: 1/11

Kajin Yılmaz: 1/8

Yılmaz YÜCE: 1/9

Baki TEKİN: 1/6

Davud DEMİR: 1/2

Please find the person who

finally takes the gift.

Duriye AKSAKAL-Toki Şehit Er Yılmaz Özdemir Primary School

Santa Claus distributed 142 gifts last year. This year it will distribute 235 times more than 3 times last year. How many gifts will Santa Claus give this year?

Emrah Körpeoğlu/Korgeneral Enver Akoğlu Secondary School

Santa has a favourite number. It is less than 18 and greater than 37. The sum of the digits is 11. It is an odd number. What is Santa' s fovourite number?

Selma Parmaksızoğlu TAD Rasime Polat İlkokulu Şanlıurfa

Santa Claus presents 23 gifts in the sack on the 1st street and 56 gifts on the 2nd street. 38 are still in the sack. According to this, how many gifts were in the sack?

Müzeyyen Durgun-Milli Egemenlik Primary School

Santa Claus is coming to a town. There are 47 families in this town and 3 children in each house. Santa Claus will leave 4 gifts for each child. How many gifts should he bring to this town?

Santa Claus Will bring some presents to our class. The number of our students is thirty nine but there are twenty six gift packages in his sack. How many packages must he put inside his sack?

Selma KURTOĞLU Fatih Sultan Mehmet Primary School

Santa Claus distributed 25 packages ,each with 3 toys first street. And he distributed 50 packages each with 2 toys second street. How many toys did Santa Claus distributed ?

Arzu İŞÇİ-Fevzi Çakmak İlkokulu

Elf Pit has wrapped 42 gifts, while Elf Nat has wrapped 2 dozen more. How many gifts in all?

Rosalia Oliva

Santa Claus is preparing gift packages to distribute in the New Year. The number of Santa's gift packages is 78 more than one-fourth of the number of weeks in a year. How many gifts does Santa have?

GÜLSÜM GÜRBÜZ SALİH VE ÖMER PRİMARY SCHOOL

Santa Claus prepared 3235 gift packages to distribute to children. When loading the packages into the sled, he dropped 398 of them. How many gifts are left in Santa's sleigh?

SERAP TEKİN -TOKİ ADİL PRİMARY SCHOOL-SULTANBEYLİ/İSTANBUL

Our class consists of 34 people. For the celebration of the new year, 23 people said that they wanted to eat cinnamon cookies. The remaining students wanted chocolate chip cookies. How many students wanted to eat chocolate chip cookies?

BAHRİYE KULAKSIZ-MÜKERREM ALİ KAYAN PRİMARY SCHOOL

Santa Claus wants to share 32 cookies to 8 students. 

How many cookies do each student eat?

Derya DENİZ GÜR- ISPARTA ŞPMK ART AND SCIENCE CENTER

There are 28 students in our classroom. Santa has one dozen gifts in his pack. How many gifts he needs more?

Öykü Güleryüz Hürriyet Primary School/Mersin

Santa had 85 gifts.

He lost a dozen.

I wonder how many gifts has he left?

Nurten Karakış/Kurupelit Primary School/Atakum/Samsun